What is your role?

Are you an Engineer with knowledge about Maintenance strategies? Do you have experience with the design of methods and procedures of maintenance? Do you have a handson mentality, and understand how our product runs in the field, but do you also easily connect with our R&D department to optimize the product development? Then this might be your new role!

Description of the role

Lely has an ambitious roadmap for the farm of the future. Key element of this roadmap is the availability of the robots in the field with 100% uptime. To reach this goal we not only have to develop our product design, but also develop our maintenance strategy to support our goals.

Our goal is to reduce the failures at our robots by understanding the root causes and preventing from failures. We want to be more predictive in our service. Therefore, we are looking for a Maintenance Engineer in our Technical Service Support team. You will be part of TSS Development, in which we are growing our development activities for the long run. The Maintenance Engineer is there to safeguard and improve the performance of production resources. And among others responsible for:

Design maintenance strategies, methods and procedures for the whole life cycle of our products. Develop procedures and standard ways of working in diagnosing breakdowns;
Implement the maintenance strategy into the organization together with the specialists of the product teams
Improve data driven performance management by developing the framework to monitor and control maintenance costs and be able to predict the cost of service;
Connect with stakeholders in the organization and our field service operations, with the goal to improve the maintenance on a strategic, tactical and operational level.You are part of the partnership with TUe (Eindhoven) on research on maintenance strategies. You will practically apply the (innovative) outcomes in the Lely environment;
Safeguard the health and safety policies and procedures within the maintenance domain.

What is your experience?

What do you bring to Lely
With your expertise in maintenance engineering, you bring in knowledge about the Reliability centered maintenance approach (RCM) and experience in an international (complex) technical service organization. Furthermore:

You completed a degree in (mechanical/industrial) Engineering or Technical Business Administration or similar (Bachelor/University);
You already gained experience, at least 3 years, as a Maintenance Engineer or in a similar position;
You have systematic insight, organizational ability and affinity with software;
Strong communication, teamwork and (project) leadership skills;
Affinity with the agricultural sector is a plus.

What do we offer you?

A job for a true engineer, with a passion for Maintenance and Service, at a company driven by innovation. You will see your ideas come to life as you have a big impact at the maintenance strategy for the future. At the end you will contribute to a sustainable way of farming.

In addition:

a job in an international environment in one of the most sustainable office and production locations in Europe;
work at one of the most innovative organisations in the Netherlands;
plenty of flexibility and freedom to organise your work;
excellent working conditions, appropriate to the importance of the job in relation to your knowledge and skills;
a challenging role, where you can take advantage of an environment that encourages personal development and growth;

... last but not least, Lely Campus has its own barista who makes the best cappuccinos around using fresh milk directly from the farm.

Recruitment or Consulting agency? We appreciate your interest, but we are sourcing all our candidates directly. We understand you are trying to offer your candidates interesting jobs at an innovative company like Lely but consider that any unsolicited profiles you send us will be treated as direct applications.

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Want to know more about this vacancy?

Milou van Ruijven

Call or WhatsApp +31 (0) 683 027 414.

About Lely

At Lely, we believe in achieving a sustainable, profitable and agreeable future for dairy farmers by combining robotisation, engineering and farming expertise.

It all started with a dream cherished by two brothers in Maassluis 70 years ago, and ever since, we have worked to become innovative market leaders in automated systems for dairy farmers across the globe. With a team of 1,600 professional specialists, we work constantly to bring about revolutionary solutions for the agro industry. We are based at our Maassluis Campus, a building which features the highest sustainability performance possible, not just in the Netherlands, but on a global scale. Our overall objective: making dairy farming interesting, also for the coming generations.